Speaking to PTI, Chawla addressed the rumors, saying: "It [friendship] is not strained or anything. With our growing lives and schedules, we get busy. Like today, Madhuri Dixit and I are working for a film because our work has brought us together. Then she will be busy with Jhalak Dikhla Jaa and I will be busy with my work. How and when we will meet next we don't know.

"If I need something and I call Shah Rukh, I know I will get through him in an instant but I will not trouble him, because I know he is very busy. So I really need not take his time."

The Gulaab Gang star said she was bemused by the media speculation about her friendships in the industry.

"I feel why it should be? I think it should be left to the individuals to decide whether they get along or not, whether there is a connect more than work or not, then you can be friends," she said.

The actress added that she maintains a cordial relationship with all her co-stars.

"Whosoever I have worked with, whenever I meet them I will be nice to them, be it Aamir Khan or Shah Rukh Khan or Amrita Singh and others. But it is not that I talk to them every day and ask what you are doing and all. That doesn't happen."

Shah Rukh and Chawla were a popular film pairing in several movies, including Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, Darr, Duplicate and Yes Boss.

The two also later became business partners in Red Chillies Entertainment and joined forces to back IPL cricket team the Kolkata Knight Riders.